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Saturday, 9 March 2013

ED SHEERAN CONCERT

India and I in the center

Looking a tad over excited..

As some of you may know, this Friday night
I went to my first ever concert. It wasn’t just any concert though – it was an
Ed Sheeran concert. I have had the chance to go to concerts before but never to
see an artist I really liked and I didn’t really want my first ever concert
memory to be of some band I only kind of liked?
It was also a particularly special because my really close friend India
came up from Christchurch so we could go together. She is the friend I have
known the longest (7 years) and now that we live in different cities we try to make
a point of doing things like this together.

The main response I got when I told people
I was going to an Ed Sheeran concert was ‘oh.. its not really concert music?’
And I will agree, its not really, there are a few tracks that you could
classify as ‘concert music’ but in general his music is more emotional (?) and
less ‘party starting’ music. BUT, it was such a good concert. In the set there were
a few songs (small bump and kiss me) that the audience were asked to be a bit
quiet for – but no one minded because it sounded so amazing and it would have
been weird to listen to those songs while going crazy in the mosh pit. The rest
of the songs had the tempo sped up so it was ‘concert music’ and you could go nuts in the mosh pit and scream until you lost your voice.

One thing that I really appreciated was the
fact that because Ed sheerans music is aimed at more of a specific audience
there were no ‘tweens’ there – the kind of 13/14 year olds who love One
Direction and just go to concerts because it’s the “cool” thing to do. This
also meant that there was a genuine appreciation for the music and every one
knew the lyrics etc.. It just made for a really good experience.

I would highly recommend seeing Ed Sheeran
live, it’s amazing. When he was trying to get in to music business he would
perform in bars and at peoples house parties etc.. because of that he has now
done something like more than 300 live performances so its kind of an
understatement to say he’s good at what he does. He’s genuinely really funny
and good at including the audience. Also at one point he sung a couple of lines
without a microphone and it was really weird (in a good way!) you could still hear him through out the arena - It was just one
of those moments when you can really appreciate just how talented someone is.

The opening acts – Passenger and Gabriella
Aplin were also SO amazing. I will be
honest I had no idea who they were before they concert but I am now buying their
music so I think that just goes to show good they were.

Have you seen any on the artists I mention
above live? What did you think?

6 comments:

I SAW ED TOO! the other week in brisbane, he was AMAZING! i really can't describe it but i'm sure you would understand. it was raining at the one i went to and it was outdoors, but still an incredible night none the less. i loved it ,definitely in my top concerts! glad you had fun too x